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South Eastern Railway - Narrow Gauge |
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By the mid 1970s there were seven narrow gauge lines on the SER, all 2'6" (762mm gauge). The largest of these were the Satpura Lines with some 1000km of route miles originally, in the area immediately east of Nagpur. Trains ran overnight in places and will presumably have offered sleeping arrangements in the first class. The main workshops at Motibagh were at the west of the system within Nagpur itself. Further east there was a Y shaped system based on Raipur. Moving on, the former Purulia - Lohardaga system had seen the middle part between Ranchi and Kotshila converted to broad gauge creating two separate narrow gauge railways, one very busy in the west and the other hardly used at all. In the north, there was the former McLeod's Bankura - Rainagar line which lasted with steam until 1996. On the east coast were two further lines, Rupsa - Bangriposi and Naupada - Gunupur which ran inland from the coastal broad gauge. |
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